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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Roy Halladay must have been awful last night

As Steve Simmons is undoubtedly whinnying to himself this morning, this is what is frustrating about Roy Halladay. He's cruising through the game, and then he gives up a home run to a fat former Rookie of the Year, and the Jays lose.

Because he totally lost last night's game. Look it up in the boxscore! Halladay (L, 12-8). The Jays should really be concerned about his performance, since he slid back closer to being a .500 pitcher. Maybe they should trade him for Jeff Francis.

Zaun would like to scope out other cities' breakfast jointsHearing that Gregg Zaun wants out of Toronto to find a place where he can get more playing time is both sad and a little bit funny. We love Zaunie, but he's at the end of his road now and is not likely to find a spot around the Majors where he would slide in to be the number one catcher. It's just that he's the last to know it.

The most devastating quote of the day goes to J.P., who might have been better served to not comment as opposed to dropping this wicked Heathers/Mean Girls slam on Zaun's head:

"Part of making a trade is someone has to want you. Right now, there's no one that has expressed an interest in him. That's where we're at."

JP's track record of honesty notwithstanding, why would he NOT deal Zaun if anyone was interested? They aren't bringing him back next year, and there's a backload of catchers in AAA/AA the team would love to break in (Diaz, Jeroloman, Arencibia (maybe not this year)....even Thigpen could be used as a once-a-week guy for the rest of the season). So I have to believe him on this one.

And good call, ToS. Come on Zaunie.....talk about biting the hand that feeds you. He might have been out of baseball 5 years ago if not for the Jays giving him a shot....and now he's pissing and moaning about playing time? What is he - 36, 37? You're not going to find a job starting on a contender, Gregggggg.

if the yankees are offering us some douchebag prospect who has zero chance of making the bigs, why should we make the deal? why should we help out those fucks? if the proper deal isn't there, you don't make it. you don't make a trade just for the sake of making a trade.

zaunie's still got an OBP of .349, which is good for third on the team. he's right in that he should be playing more. but by going public, he fucked JP, and JP fucked him right back.

Point taken on both counts, Stoeten and erickus. We might have been egging the pudding a bit too much here.

A point in our defense here though: the reason why Zaun is unhappy is because of the backup role...so isn't it a bit douchey for Zaun to say "I can deal with less playing time, I just want to do it with a better team than this one."

Maybe there are still left over hard feelings about the whole "we wanted Rod as number one until he backed out last season, so we'll just go to Zaun." So backing out, and then coming back and still winning the starting role is kind of a bitch slap to the ego.

Torgen: I guess I didn't read the fine print. Then again, neither did the Sportsnet announcers who broadcast the game on the 30th. (I think it was Campbell and Tabler, but if it isn't Morgan and Jon Miller, I guess I'm never sure.) They brought up the contract.

As for all anything else I might want to say about the Jays, it all seems pointless in light of today's loss. No Manny, no meaningful September, no nothing. Off I go into the darkness...